CHEN at Columbia University

Intro sequences

The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.

• 1. CHEN E3110PRINCIPLES OF TRANSPORT PHENOMENA.
  2. CHEE E3010PRIN-CHEM ENGIN-THERMODYNAMICS.
  3. CHEN E2100Material and Energy Balances.
  4. CHEN E4140ENGINEERING SEPARATIONS.
• 1. CHEN E2100Material and Energy Balances.
  2. CHEE E3010PRIN-CHEM ENGIN-THERMODYNAMICS.
  3. CHEN E3110PRINCIPLES OF TRANSPORT PHENOMENA.

A suggested order for the 31 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate CHEN coursework.

• CHEN E3230REACTOR KINETICS/REACTOR DESIGN.opens 10 courses (10 directly)
• CHEN E4140ENGINEERING SEPARATIONS.opens 2 courses (1 directly)
• CHEN E3120TRANSPORT PHENOMENA II.opens 1 course (1 directly)
• CHEN E4500PROCESS ＆ PRODUCT DESIGN I.opens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate CHEN work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 31 CHEN and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 82 more CHEN courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in CHEN. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at CHEN E4510

  1. CHEE E3010PRIN-CHEM ENGIN-THERMODYNAMICS.
  2. CHEN E4140ENGINEERING SEPARATIONS.
  3. CHEN E4500PROCESS ＆ PRODUCT DESIGN I.
  4. CHEN E4510PROCESS ＆ PRODUCT DESIGN II.

• 3 courses deep, ending at CHEN E3810

  1. CHEE E3010PRIN-CHEM ENGIN-THERMODYNAMICS.
  2. CHEN E3230REACTOR KINETICS/REACTOR DESIGN.
  3. CHEN E3810CHEM ENG ＆ APPLIED CHEM LAB.

• 3 courses deep, ending at CHEN E4320

  1. CHEN E3110PRINCIPLES OF TRANSPORT PHENOMENA.
  2. CHEN E3120TRANSPORT PHENOMENA II.
  3. CHEN E4320MOLECULAR PHENOMENA-CHEM ENGI.

• 2 courses deep, ending at CHEN E4380

  1. CHEN E2100Material and Energy Balances.
  2. CHEN E4380Green Chemical Engineering ＆ Innovation.

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

Instructors on CHEN sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.

• Aghavni Bedrossian
• Alan West
• Alexander Urban
• Allie Obermeyer
• Asher Williams
• Ben O'Shaughnessy
• Christopher Boyce
• Christopher Durning
• Christopher Vic Chen
• Dan Steingart
• Daniel Esposito
• Elias Mattas
• Jingguang Chen
• Jingyue Ju
• Juliana Silva Alves Carneiro
• Kenneth Spall
• Kyle Bishop
• Lauren Marbella
• Mijo Simunovic
• Neil Dolinski
• Oleg Gang
• Robert Bozic
• Sakul Ratanalert
• Sanat Kumar
• Scott Banta
• Venkat Venkatasubramanian
• Vivian McNeill

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under CHEN yet.

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Department events

CHEN does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Columbia campus feed.